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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 5
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Judgments shall be poured out upon the Jews because of their sins—Their iniquities cause blessings to be withheld from them.
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Run</span> ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be <i>any</i> that <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/1a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR does justly; Gen. 18: 26; Ezek. 22: 30.">executeth</a> judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
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And though they say, The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> liveth; surely they <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Swearing.">swear</a> falsely.
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O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>are</i> not thine eyes upon the truth?  thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, <i>but</i> they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/3a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR repent; Hag. 2: 17.">return</a>.
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Therefore I said, Surely these <i>are</i> poor; they are foolish: for they <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Ignorance.">know</a> not the way of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>nor</i> the judgment of their God.
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I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>and</i> the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE of the law and the covenants.">yoke</a>, <i>and</i> burst the bonds.
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Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, <i>and</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zeph. 3: 3.">wolf</a> of the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/5/6b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR plains, wilderness.">evenings</a> shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/5/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Wickedness.">transgressions</a> are many, <i>and</i> their backslidings are increased.
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&#182; How shall I pardon thee for this?  thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by <i>them that are</i> no gods: when I had fed them to the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 32: 15.">full</a>, they then committed <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/5/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Adultery.">adultery</a>, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
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They were <i>as</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/8a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB lusty stallions.">fed</a> horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
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Shall I not <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR punish (also v. 29).">visit</a> for these <i>things?</i>  saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: and shall not my soul be <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/5/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 9: 9; Jer. 44: 22.">avenged</a> on such a nation as this?
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&#182; Go ye up upon her walls, and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 39: 8 (8-10).">destroy</a>; but make not a full <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/5/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 4: 27.">end</a>: take away her battlements; for they <i>are</i> not the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s.
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For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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They have belied the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and said, <i>It is</i> not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 14: 13.">sword</a> nor famine:
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And the prophets shall become wind, and the word <i>is</i> not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
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Wherefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prophets, Mission of.">mouth</a> fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
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Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: it <i>is</i> a mighty nation, it <i>is</i> an ancient nation, a nation whose <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 33: 19.">language</a> thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
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Their quiver <i>is</i> as an open sepulchre, they <i>are</i> all mighty men.
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And they shall <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 28: 51 (31, 33, 51).">eat</a> up thine harvest, and thy bread, <i>which</i> thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
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Nevertheless in those days, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, I will not make a full end with you.
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&#182; And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God all these <i>things</i> unto us?  then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">forsaken</a> me, and served strange <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/5/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">gods</a> in your land, so shall ye <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/5/19c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">serve</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="jer/5/19d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Strangers.">strangers</a> in a land <i>that is</i> not yours.
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Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
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Hear now this, O <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Foolishness.">foolish</a> people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/5/21b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Watchfulness.">see</a> not; which have ears, and <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/5/21c" mark="c" type="A" title="Matt. 13: 14.">hear</a> not:
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Fear ye not me?  saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand <i>for</i> the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
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But this people hath a revolting and a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 78: 8.">rebellious</a> heart; they are revolted and gone.
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Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God, that giveth rain, both <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/24a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE winter and spring.">the</a> former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
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&#182; Your iniquities have turned away these <i>things,</i> and your sins have withholden good <i>things</i> from you.
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For among my people are found <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Wickedness.">wicked</a> <i>men:</i> they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/5/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 10: 13.">catch</a> men.
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As a cage is full of birds, so <i>are</i> their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/27a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Worldliness.">great</a>, and waxen rich.
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They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Judgment.">judge</a> not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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Shall I not visit for these <i>things?</i>  saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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&#182; A wonderful and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 6: 10.">horrible</a> thing is committed in the land;
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/5/31a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG False Prophets.">prophets</a> prophesy <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/5/31b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 7: 8; Lam. 4: 13.">falsely</a>, and the <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/5/31c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Priestcraft.">priests</a> bear rule by their means; and my people <sup>d</sup><a href="jer/5/31d" mark="d" type="A" title="Rom. 1: 32.">love</a> <i>to have it</i> so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
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